The petition to the Queen asking her to strip the “Right Honourable” status off Stephen Byers by removing him from the Privy Council is now approaching 4,000 signatures of support in less than 24 hours.

It seems to Guido that if he has been suspended from the Labour Party for bringing it into disrepute then his position is impossible and he should have the decency to resign from the Privy Council. Byers swore an Oath when he became a member of the Privy Council that “by Almighty God to be a true and faithful Servant unto The Queen’s Majesty as one of Her Majesty’s Privy Council … And generally in all things you will do as a faithful and true Servant ought to do to Her Majesty.“ He has broken that Oath and brought dishonour to his office. He should no longer be able to call himself “Right Honourable”, sign the petition:

“We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to strip Stephen Byers MP of his membership of the Privy Council due to his involvement in offering to sell access to Her Majesty’s Government for personal profit.”